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Comment by dumbledoren

> British colonies universally benefited from the British empire

Yeah, the 100-200 million Indians who were killed by the East India Company through famines after being forced to raise opium instead of grain to help EIC to sell opium to kill 10-20 million Chinese every year would definitely agree...

https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide

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